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POLSH 320 Introduction to Contemporary Polish Culture (5, max. 15) VLPA/I&S
Overview of contemporary Polish culture: literature (prose, poetry, and drama), film (feature, documentary, and video art), music (classical, jazz, and rock), theatre, art, and architecture, as well as an introduction to the cultural life in Poland in the twenty-first century. Offered: AW.
POLSH 401 First-Year Polish (5)
Principal morphological and syntactic features of the Polish language through the medium of a basic vocabulary. Cannot be taken for credit if Polish is the student's language of admission. First in a sequence of three. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Katarzyna A. Dziwirek
POLSH 402 First-Year Polish (5)
Principal morphological and syntactic features of the Polish language through the medium of a basic vocabulary. Second in a sequence of three. Prerequisite: POLSH 401. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Katarzyna A. Dziwirek
POLSH 403 First-Year Polish (5)
Designed to enlarge general vocabulary by the reading of short texts selected from Polish authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Third in a sequence of three. Prerequisite: POLSH 402. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Katarzyna A. Dziwirek
POLSH 404 Second-Year Polish (5) VLPA
Continuation of POLSH 401, POLSH 402, POLSH 403. Selected readings of the main works from nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Reinforces basic knowledge of vocabulary, grammatical patterns, and conversation. First in a sequence of three. Prerequisite: 2.0 in POLSH 403. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Katarzyna A. Dziwirek
POLSH 405 Second-Year Polish (5) VLPA
Continuation of POLSH 401, POLSH 402, POLSH 403. Selected readings of the main works from nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Reinforces basic knowledge of vocabulary, grammatical patterns, and conversation. Second in a sequence of three. Prerequisite: POLSH 404. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Katarzyna A. Dziwirek
POLSH 406 Second-Year Polish (5) VLPA
Continuation of POLSH 401, POLSH 402, POLSH 403. Selected readings of the main works from nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Reinforces basic knowledge of vocabulary, grammatical patterns, and conversation. Third in a sequence of three. Prerequisite: POLSH 405. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Katarzyna A. Dziwirek
POLSH 420 Modern Polish Literature in English (5, max. 15) VLPA
Representative prose works by leading twentieth-century Polish writers. Polish literature's critique of modern European civilization. The relation of historical memory, collective victimization, and the utopian imagination in Polish literature to political power and national survival.
